Example sentences of "is [adj] [subord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the history of socialist economies , it is doubtful whether even a far more radical and complete transformation of the relations of production would , of itself , have removed this basis for class differentiation , and for this reason Morris remains a problematic model for contemporary socialism . |
| 2 | The vast majority of social research employs ordinal data or , more rarely , the interval scale : even in such cases it is doubtful whether even the most developed of such scales actually satisfy the requirements . |
| 3 | This is acceptable when only the family are around , but when we have guests , embarrassing situations can arise . |
| 4 | Which is interesting because here the three of us are , thinking about what it means to belong somewhere , what it might mean to belong to this idea called ‘ theatre ’ . |
| 5 | In an isotropic space all geodesic surfaces at a single point have by definition identical Gaussian curvature : in a space that is homogeneous as well the curvature is the same everywhere . |
| 6 | The second method is appropriate when only a small number of arithmetic operations are to be performed on each of a large number of initial items of data . |
| 7 | Such a stern demand is appropriate because once a man becomes a Christian he finds himself enlisted on God 's side in a lifelong battle . |
| 8 | The publicity given to the conference is important because both the propaganda department and the People 's Daily , the official voice of the Communist Party , have long preferred stability and ideological orthodoxy to the no-holds-barred economic reforms favoured by Deng . |
| 9 | The NCR 3450 departmental or workgroup server is available as either a uniprocessor or multiprocessor , expandable to four iAPX-86 microprocessors and the NCR 3550 is designed for use as a powerful symmetric multi-processing server for transaction processing and database applications and is expandable up to eight microprocessors . |
| 10 | The NCR 3450 departmental or workgroup server is available as either a uniprocessor or multiprocessor , expandable to four iAPX-86 microprocessors and the NCR 3550 is designed for use as a powerful symmetric multi-processing server for transaction processing and database applications and is expandable up to eight microprocessors . |
| 11 | It is unclear whether all the eligibility criteria listed in points ( i ) to ( iii ) need to be satisfied before a grant will be awarded . |
| 12 | Setting clear boundaries for the child 's behaviour is essential as once the child realizes that the parents are being consistent and firm in their reactions the problem behaviour will disappear . |
| 13 | For all normal record updating a loss of this magnitude can be expected , but it would not apply if the processing involved is trivial because then the records can be processed at reading — that is , rotation — speeds . |